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With the Geneva talks ruptured, the Stockholm conference has become the focus of hopes for some movement out of the superpower impasse. Under the terms of the final document of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Stockholm gathering is not even supposed to discuss nuclear arms control. Instead, the estimated 350 delegates from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will discuss ways of reducing the risk of a conventional war in Europe...
...President intended to make the same point in his speech by calling on the Soviets to honor international agree ments. As evidence, the Administration planned to send Congress a report this week listing alleged treaty violations. The document accuses the Soviet Union of ignoring prohibitions on the use of chemical and biological weapons. It also cites a radar facility and a new missiles system that appear to violate arms control agreements. A White House aide insisted that there was nothing contradictory about the accusatory report and the conciliatory speech. Said he: "The Soviets will still lie and cheat...
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...long journey with the treaty winds down, Challinor believes that the message from that document and from the men who devised it has an eerie resonance at a time when we have grown weary of the threat of war, of arming and then arming more. "A recognition of the talents necessary for the work of peace and a rightful regard for the skills of international diplomacy seem a most appropriate commemoration of the Treaty of Paris," she says...
...money and desire to fight, needed peace. The men in Paris understood that, and also understood the workings of the rest of the world. In a brilliant bit of negotiating, they produced a document that acknowledged U.S. independence and title to vast territories stretching to the Mississippi River without rupturing the special relationship between the people of the U.S. and the British Empire. "The fortunes of the new nation may have turned more on what they accomplished at the negotiating table than on all their other attainments," says Challinor. "We should put negotiators on an equal footing with our martial...